The Groovy Development team is releasing Groovy 1.8, and this session will cover the new features including improved support for advanced and readable Domain-Specific Languages thanks to Groovy 1.8's "Extended Command Expressions", new performance improvements in the area of integer arithmetics, built-in support for parsing and producing JSON payloads, new AST transformations and now GPars come already bundled.

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Command chains expressions• A grammar improvement allowing you to drop dots & parens when chaining method calls – an extended version of top-level statements like println• Less dots, less parens allow you to – write more readable business rules – in almost plain English sentences • (or any language, of course) 6

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Command chains expressions• A grammar improvement allowing you to drop dots & parens when chaining method calls – an extended version of top-level statements like println• Less dots, less parens allow you to – write more readable business rules – in almost plain English sentences • (or any language, of course) 6

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Command chains expressions• A grammar improvement allowing you to drop dots & parens when chaining method calls – an extended version of top-level statements like println• Less dots, less parens allow you to – write more readable business rules – in almost plain English sentences • (or any language, of course)• Let’s have a look at some examples 6

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Controlling code execution• Your application may run user’s code – what if the code runs in infinite loops or for too long? – what if the code consumes too many resources? 33

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Controlling code execution• Your application may run user’s code – what if the code runs in infinite loops or for too long? – what if the code consumes too many resources?• 3 new transforms at your rescue – @ThreadInterrupt: adds Thread#isInterrupted checks so your executing thread stops when interrupted – @TimedInterrupt: adds checks in method and closure bodies to verify it’s run longer than expected – @ConditionalInterrupt: adds checks with your own conditional logic to break out from the user code 33

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Controlling code execution• Your application may run user’s code – what if the code runs in infinite loops or for too long? – what if the code consumes too many resources?• 3 new transforms at your rescue – @ThreadInterrupt: adds Thread#isInterrupted checks so your executing thread stops when interrupted – @TimedInterrupt: adds checks in method and closure bodies to verify it’s run longer than expected – @ConditionalInterrupt: adds checks with your own conditional logic to break out from the user code 33

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Controlling code execution• Your application may run user’s code – what if the code runs in infinite loops or for too long? – what if the code consumes too many resources?• 3 new transforms at your rescue – @ThreadInterrupt: adds Thread#isInterrupted checks so your executing thread stops when interrupted – @TimedInterrupt: adds checks in method and closure bodies to verify it’s run longer than expected – @ConditionalInterrupt: adds checks with your own conditional logic to break out from the user code• Also see compilation customizers later on 33

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@Canonical• One annotation to rule them all! – @Canonical mixes together • @ToString • @EqualsAndHashCode • @TupleConstructor• You can customize behavior by combining @Canonical and one of the other annotations 40

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Compilation customizers• Ability to apply some customization to the Groovy compilation process• Three available customizers – ImportCustomizer – SecureASTCustomizer – ASTTransformationCustomizer• But you can implement your own 44

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Underscore in literals• We can now also add underscores in number literals for more readability long creditCardNumber = 1234_5678_9012_3456L long socialSecurityNumbers = 999_99_9999L float monetaryAmount = 12_345_132.12 long hexBytes = 0xFF_EC_DE_5E long hexWords = 0xFFEC_DE5E long maxLong = 0x7fff_ffff_ffff_ffffL long alsoMaxLong = 9_223_372_036_854_775_807L long bytes = 0b11010010_01101001_10010100_10010010 57